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Revive Your Fitness Routine For The New Year

Two out of every three Australians fail to meet the Australian Government’s recommended guidelines for exercise — a mere 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity for five days of the week. If that’s you, here are four ways to help you get moving out of the inactive group and into long-term health and fitness.

The Importance Of Hydration In Fitness

Dehydration and fitness performance are more closely linked than you may realise. Find out how much water you really need to be consuming before, during, and after your workouts for optimum performance and health.

Against The Grain

Does cutting gluten from your diet lead to better health? Oxygen separates the facts from the fad.

How To Heal Common Beauty Challenges

You probably look in the mirror every day - but are you really seeing whats going on?

Are Your Cells Secretly Draining Your Energy?

So, you have been reading Oxygen Magazine articles for a while now and following the lessons to get your dietbalanced and calculated properly for your goals; you understand micronutrients and have all bases coveredwith your essential nutrients and your gut seems to be working well. You are in a stable state of wellness and freeof disease. You look good! You feeling good? Well, thats good. Now we have a strong foundationto work from; lets go from good to awesome.

Are You Addicted To Sugar?

Manage your cravings withmindful eating Help, Im addicted to chocolate! Forget superman and saving the city. Most days we feel like we need to send asmoke signal to a superhero that saves us from ourselves when it comes to cravings and the dreaded S word. Dietitian, Nutritionist and mindful eating specialist Christina Turner gives Oxygen readers the ammo to control those sweet cravings before they strike!

Top Transit Tips For Health Conscious Jetsetters

Why is it that as soon as you hit the airport, all motivation to eat healthily and train regularly goes out the window? Suddenly the caramel slice or Big Mac, that would never have crossed your mind before beginning your holiday venture, becomes too hard to resist (tell us we’re not the only ones?!). It’s certainly important to enjoy our holidays and take a break from hardcore training and diet regimes. But in a world full of jetsetters who are travelling more and more frequently, it pays to be a little mindful of moving your body regularly and watching what you fuel with!

Building A Shapely​ Booty

Are We Doing It All Wrong?!

6 Gym Bag Essentials That'll Do The Hard Work For You This Spring

Motivation to move your body comes and goes, but as the layers start to come off as the seasons change, there is a renewed sense of urgency to slim down and tone up for summer. Luckily for our Oxygirls, we’ve tracked down personal trainer and fascia/stretching expert Tegan Haining, who reveals her hot tips on what to pack in your gym bag to inspire a kick-arse workout! Tegan has also trained the likes of David Beckham, Jess Gomes and Natalie Imbruglia - so we think we believe her!

5 Ingredients You Need For Energy

Bypass the common go-to caffeinated or sweet treats when you need a lift and make these sustainable, energyboosting foods part of your diet instead.

Training Beyond Vanity

The Benefits Of Exercise Go Far Deeper Than The Way We Look. From Enhancing Our Health And Wellbeing To Improving Our Confidence Levels And Work Productivity, The Advantages Are Endless.

The Right Choices For Enduring Success

Life is about making choices about what we should do, what we want to do, and then there’s what we actually do. Often, once people start a family and have to balance a partner, children, work, and social engagements, they push decisions about their own health and fitness down the priority list. When I met Melissa Crowther, 42-year-old military wife, mother of two boys, 9 and 11, business owner, mentor, and coach, I was impressed at how well she manages her time. She makes the right choices, every day, despite obstacles, in order to obtain her health goals. As her business name, Enduring Fitness, suggests, it is about consistently living a healthy life.

Fat Loss The Healthy Way

There are healthy and unhealthy ways to do just about anything — and losing weight is no different.

Work In Progress

It took one photo for Sarah Savio to overcome years of denial and build up the courage to change her lifestyle. Now a seasoned competitor who continues to smash goals, Sarah’s mission is to share her story and motivate women to ensure that no individual goes through the unknown of starting the way she did.

Finding balance

If she’s not on stage competing or in the gym training clients, WA sports model Sara Richards is on the beach, having a BBQ and playing volleyball or football with her friends.

She Has The World At Her Feet

Nowadays if you meet the confident and fit Oxygen Challenge Winner, Carina Gabb, you would never guess that she once felt trapped by her own inner demons, physically and psychologically out of control. She was her own worst critic, but what sets Carina apart from the crowd is that she chose ‘her hard’. She decided that being overweight was harder than starting her fitness journey and has built herself a healthy lifestyle from the inside out.

Flex For Your Brain

Looks like exercise does more than help you sculpt a better bod: it keeps your mind on point, too.

Motivation From Within

Overweight, having anxious panic attacks and realising her self-confidence had hit an all-time low, Rebecca Beavon pressed the ‘Submit’ button and has never looked back.

The Change In The Kitchen

Living solo? Eating healthy was easy. But now with children on board, the struggle to keep your kitchen running smoothly seems to be an endless battle.

DIY Indoor Cycling Class

Who needs an instructor? Design your own cycling workout and ride, Sally, ride!

Manuka Honey Liquid Gold

Honey has been used regularly throughout history as a therapeutic remedy, with records of its cultural and medicinal importance shown in rock paintings, carvings and texts. Manuka, or liquid gold as some call it, has been traditionally known as a ‘healing honey’, but its benefits go way beyond just this.

Morgan Is Uplifting Women In Fitness

From cartwheels to calisthenics, Morgan Moroney may be small but she is fierce. Now a coach at Gold Coast calisthenics community Art of Motion Pursuit of Movement, Morgan is seizing 2018 with both hands with the support of her AMPM ‘family’ and a few clients who, despite their impairments, continue to inspire her every day.

Go Green In 2018

Okay, so you’ve probably heard this time and time again but this time you’re really going to listen (*read). Ready? You need to consume more greens! Not only are leafy greens packed with vitamins, minerals,fibre  and are a fantastic boost of energy but they are also essential for muscular endurance. Oxygen explains the ‘why’ behind consuming more greens and the ‘how’ to get them into your diet today!

The Power In Her Voice

The concept of strength has many different shades of grey and, while it may represent one thing to a person, it can mean something vastly different to another. For 19-year-old Kristine Lio-Willie, the label of ‘strong woman’ isn’t one she associated herself with in her younger years. In fact, quite the opposite. It may come as a shock if you met the accomplished and driven woman she is in 2018 to know that a mere five years ago she nearly took her own life.

Rush Hour Back To School With Jules & Hudson

With her eldest son, Hudson (5) starting primary school this year, and her youngest, Archer (3) not far behind, stylist and television presenter Jules Sebastian has had to learn quickly the tricks of the trade when it comes to negotiating the morning rush hour. We ask the new H2coco Lunchbox Range ambassador about her new health regime and how she smashes through each morning as a busy mum!

Clear-Skin Foods

Summer is here, and one of the best things about summer is going to the beach fresh-faced! Here are some amazing foods containing properties that are perfect inclusions for those beach snacks and will also keep your skin looking amazing well into autumn!

Watermelon

Here’s why we think this summer staple deserves a place on your plate all year round.

Meet Cover Girl Winner Sophie O'Callaghan

She had a bad case of ‘imposter syndrome’, where you believe you are sure to be ‘found out’ as not good enough in your daily life, but it all changed for Sophie O’Callaghan when a strong fitness model inspired her to become strong herself. After finding a copy of Oxygen in a drawer at her workplace and using the training programs as a start to her new, healthier life, she reveals how she’s come full circle, gracing the cover as the winner of Oxygen’s Cover Girl Competition.

Meet Jamie's Pick Winner Kim Lawless

Finding the balance between caring for her family, her health and fitness and an illness that drained her energy, Kim Lawless is the definition of resilient. Pushing past her limitations, nowadays the Melbourne mum’s mission is to help others, and encourages others to ‘do what makes your soul shine!’

Love Conquers All

She had a childhood without many of the comforts we take for granted or the safety net that a grounded home life can provide, but for Shannah Baker, the support of her beloved grandmother was something she could always count on. Here, she pays tribute to the woman who fortified her, taught her resilience, nd instilled in her the values and strength that she now inspires others with..